Ghostitectures

The first series I did when I started painting was on remembered architecture, kind of like these found on inimitable ManMakeHome. I could never quite find enough good "ghostitectures" to photograph, but Marcus Buck surely did.

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According to comments left on MMH blog,

Budapest and Hobart, Tasmania are hotbeds for these.

Art Shopping, Paid For In Kind

More works by artist Simryn Gill I am considering buying, though it's all a pipe dream with the reality that is my severely wilted bank balance. I wonder if Breenspace gallery will accept Good Intentions as payment? 

These are from My Own Private Angkor series...

Or maybe from her Power Station series. (They come in pairs)

All works belong to the artist, images via from Breenspace

Abandoned 1

Abandoned images trawled today

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Russian library from fascinating site English Russia. The books look like forgotten children.

Tyersall House, Singapore by Daniel Cheong. Click on for larger view. Stunning. He also has a group of haunting photos of The Mitre Hotel on his flickr site, which I unfortunately can't download. Pesky copyrights.


Images from Infinite Ink

Photography by Greg Girard and Yang Yi

I'm intrigued by quiet, abandoned spaces that nobody really thinks about. They don't fit in with the pace of our lives, or our penchant for instant gratification and instant beauty. Maybe like the Angkor Wats or Parthenons, these are the modern ruins of our time - not particularly majestic, not really pretty, but layered with historys just the same. Greg Girard is a photographer who works out of China - in a place where the passing of time and frenzied change is happening before our very eyes.

Artist-Photographer Yang Yi has done some intriguing underwater stills of the controversial Three Gorges Dam. Reminds me of scenes from the film "Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress".

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